{"id":2539,"date":"2014-09-03T01:01:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T01:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=2539"},"modified":"2014-09-03T01:03:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T01:03:30","slug":"i-saw-it-at-the-movies-history-and-film-on-microblogmonday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/i-saw-it-at-the-movies-history-and-film-on-microblogmonday\/","title":{"rendered":"I Saw It at the Movies: History and Film on #MicroblogMonday"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Meryl<\/a>
Meryl Streep and Robert deNiro, Best Picture for 1978<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I saw\u00a0The Normal Heart<\/a>, then Love is Strange<\/a>\u00a0— with no premeditation, both in the same week.<\/p>\n

Each is a great document of a time in our history. \u00a0I began thinking about the power of these films and how valuable they would be as teaching tools. \u00a0With that in mind, I hereby initiate the “films to teach American history by” list. \u00a0Here are some more of mine; please add your own in the comments.<\/p>\n

Kramer v Kramer<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Hair<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Do the Right Thing<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Deerhunter<\/a><\/p>\n

Bullworth<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Dead Man Walking<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Valley of Decision<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Gentleman’s Agreement<\/a><\/p>\n

Good Night and Good Luck<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Green Berets<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Get on the Bus<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Pawnbroker<\/a><\/p>\n

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I saw\u00a0The Normal Heart, then Love is Strange\u00a0— with no premeditation, both in the same week. Each is a great document of a time in our history. \u00a0I began thinking about the power of these films and how valuable they would be as teaching tools. \u00a0With that in mind, I hereby initiate the “films to … Continue reading I Saw It at the Movies: History and Film on #MicroblogMonday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,27,28,9],"tags":[2812,2129,2149,2804,2802,2811,2806,2809,2807,1537,2801,2797,2803,2808,2780,2810,2805],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-affairs","category-film","category-politics","tag-microblogmonday","tag-american-history","tag-bulworth","tag-dead-man-walking","tag-do-the-right-thing","tag-film-history","tag-gentlemans-agreement","tag-get-on-the-bus","tag-good-night-and-good-luck","tag-hair","tag-kramer-v-kramer","tag-love-is-strange","tag-the-deerhunter","tag-the-green-berets","tag-the-normal-heart","tag-the-pawnbroker","tag-valley-of-decision"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-EX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}